Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)

This amendment seeks to deal with the issue of bonded labour, which is fundamental as far as my party is concerned. It is a problem at the core of the Bill wherein the permit holder is tied to one employer, even where that employer is exploitative. Unfortunately, it also exposes a two-tier system again because clearly the other category of permit holder is not bonded in this way and is not thus restricted. I acknowledge that there has been an improvement in that at least now the permit holder is supposed to get a copy of the permit. Unfortunately, however, it does not go far enough and that is why this amendment is extremely important.

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